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maître

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I've made a homepage (for Safari 3), which is a copy of apple.com/fr from February 2005.
Since some images for the french website weren't archived, I've edited in the translations in Photoshop.
Guess which PowerBook I used;)
 

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galgot

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Talking of iMac G5, used it to play with Timbuktu. Here connected with a good working (...more or less, it sometimes freezes and I have no idea why...) PowerBook 180c I managed to make with the best parts of two 180Cs...
It now also has a 2.5" BlueSCSI .
Timbuktu is what I've found the best tool for exchanging files with these oldies.

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alex_free

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I went to a retail store to get a DVI to HDMI cable for the Mac mini G4 (R.I.P VGA support on new TVs) and a RCA to RCA cable for my PS1 since my video cable broke and I've been sharing one cable for the PS1 and PS2.

$49 was my total.
That is the same price I paid for this Mac mini G4 in 2018.

That is including a "discount" on the DVI to HDMI cable since it was an open box previously returned item.

I just got the DVI to HDMI cable and put the RCA to RCA back so $29 was my total. For a cable. That was on "discount".

That is the last time I buy electronics in a retail store. The same store, I bought the same cable, pre COVID, for $12.
 

galgot

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Yesterday , not today, I worked on this little guy, which is the first PPC powerbook model (appart form upgraded 520/540/550s) , a 100 Mhz 5300c.
The 3GB HD was readable, but it wouldn’t boot from it, so changed it for another 4GB HD, waiting for a 4GB CF card to come… The batterie is dead of course, and the PRAM battery agonizing, this gives me sometime the « Green Light Of Death » syndrome at startup, but for now it’s can be solved by leaving it plugged to the power brick for a few minutes. Other than that, it’s in superb shape, even still have the back ports door !

So made these picts today.

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And while I’m at it , here is a cool non-https site, every thing you wanted to know about 5300 but never dared ask :


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ahurst

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I've played with my newly acquired PowerBook 1400c/166 .
Installed a "BookCover" :) have yet to do one of my own.
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Incredible! Where did you find that cover??? I always thought it was cool that was technically possible with the 1400, but I've never seen one in the wild before. Very period-appropriate aesthetic.

Talking of iMac G5, used it to play with Timbuktu. Here connected with a good working (...more or less, it sometimes freezes and I have no idea why...) PowerBook 180c I managed to make with the best parts of two 180Cs...
It now also has a 2.5" BlueSCSI .
Timbuktu is what I've found the best tool for exchanging files with these oldies.

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Is that a sort of VNC setup for classic macs? How are you networking the two, an ethernet PCMCIA card in the PowerBook or an Appletalk serial to ethernet bridge setup?
 
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ahurst

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Today I finally got around to something I've been putting off since 2018: repairing my PowerBook G3 Wallstreet!

I was gifted it by a professor in my old department who was retiring and clearing out her lab space, somehow the AC jack had detached itself from the power board and was wiggling around loose in the socket. Given how much a pain PowerBooks usually are to get apart, I'd been putting it off for years:

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Amazingly, this is one of the easiest Apple laptops I've ever had to take apart! The interior layout is a little funky (you have to remove the CPU heatsink to replace the HDD or RAM, the HDD connects to a separate board that attaches to the logic board with a PCI-style connection, two separate ribbon cables for the keyboard) but most of the screws are the same type and length, and the Apple service manual is surprisingly friendly (in the top-right, on an old iPad 2).

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I forgot to take photos of the AC jack before and after, but after struggling with some desoldering braid for a bit to clean the old stuff off I re-seated and soldered it securely back in place. After some cleaning and uncommonly easy reassembly, it lives again!

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A whopping 2GB hard drive, 64 MB RAM, a blazing 233 MHz G3, and MacOS 8.5. What more could you ask for? (Note: the stickers on the keys are because it was used for data collection in cognitive psych experiments at one point. I found a couple of the experiments on the drive, will see if I can get any of them to run.)

Once I've played around with the existing programs a bit, I'm going to upgrade the RAM to 160 MB (I have a spare 128 MB for it), put a slightly larger IDE drive in it, and try installing Rhapsody/Mac OS Server 1.2 on it. Should be fun to play around with :)
 
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galgot

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Incredible! Where did you find that cover??? I always thought it was cool that was technically possible with the 1400, but I've never seen one in the wild before. Very period-appropriate aesthetic.


Is that a sort of VNC setup for classic macs? How are you networking the two, an ethernet PCMCIA card in the PowerBook or an Appletalk serial to ethernet bridge setup?
They some time shows up on the bay, but true I waited some time to get these covers.
Saved a search for Powerbook 1400c at one point, and got luck.
But the most rare 1400c accessory must be the solar panel lid cover, never ever saw one for sale...

Yes Timbuktu can be used for screen sharing just like VNC, but even though there are some VNC servers and clients for MacOS 7/8/9, they aren’t as fast as Timbuktu on old Mac OSs. Can be used for files sharing too.
Check the Macintosh Garden :
https://macintoshgarden.org/search/node/timbuktu
They have lots of the versions there, even for Windows. While back I installed the Windows version through Wine on a Debian machine, and it worked :)

That 1400c is connected via a Ethernet PCMCIA card, a Dayna Communicard.
But yes, works too with a Mini Din-8 printer cable connected to the iMacG5 through an KeySpan Serial/USB adapter, acting as PPP server. But much slower .
Can be done with a Rhapsbery-Pi too, but never tried.

The Wallstreet is my Favorite ! I had lots of fun discovering rhapsody with it.
Posted some few stuff I played with on the Macintosh Garden, check :
https://macintoshgarden.org/search/node/rhapsody
Like SSH for Rhapsody, Doom, Quake II, lot of stuff there…
 
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eyoungren

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Took USB BT adapter out of E:09 Mini and placed in 17" PowerBook G4. This particular stick is capable it seems of only one good BT connection at a time, but all I am using it for with the PB is to stream music to my loudspeaker.

Still has a bit of static, but much better than the stock BT.

Getting a new adapter for my Mini soon.
 
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Doq

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It's that time of the year again, as I receive my Chillhop Essentials CD for the Spring, I pull out my Titanium to put in the CD info and send it off to GnuDB. Also had the Final Four playing on the M1 mini for bonus points.
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One of the artists' names had an e with umlaut in it. Not knowing how to type that character in OS 9, I went to Google in Classilla.
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whiskersld

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burned 5 tiger cds between my intel mac and my g3 trying to get them to boot. toasts from the garden. none worked. feel like pulling my hair out and turning into mr clean
 

whiskersld

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burned 5 tiger cds between my intel mac and my g3 trying to get them to boot. toasts from the garden. none worked. feel like pulling my hair out and turning into mr clean
HOLY **** JUST USED BURN IT WORKED TFF HERE I COME I FEEL LIKE GOD
 

wicknix

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For archival purposes i dug out my unfinished Arctic Fox port for 10.4/10.5 and uploaded it to the garden. While i was at it i refreshed the default profile and preinstalled ublock, noscript, greasemonkey, and speedstart (which is used in place of the broken bookmarks). I also uploaded it's screenshot with the MG site loaded. This way when MR steals it it'll be obvious. I still find it very quick and usable, and it's still my main browser on 10.4/10.5.


Cheers
 

galgot

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For archival purposes i dug out my unfinished Arctic Fox port for 10.4/10.5 and uploaded it to the garden. While i was at it i refreshed the default profile and preinstalled ublock, noscript, greasemonkey, and speedstart (which is used in place of the broken bookmarks). I also uploaded it's screenshot with the MG site loaded. This way when MR steals it it'll be obvious. I still find it very quick and usable, and it's still my main browser on 10.4/10.5.


Cheers
Thank you Sir ! ?
 

fooyork

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Spent a part of the afternoon upgrading the RAM and the HDD of the Pismo. Thought I had killed it after it wouldn’t start after I had put it back together, but on the third attempt realised I had not properly seated the daughter board. Phew.

Anyway, as someone else on here has already posted somewhere: The Matrix seemed an apt DVD to test it with. Same vintage.

Gosh I love the Pismo PowerBook. Such a wonderful laptop.
 

Dronecatcher

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Anyway, as someone else on here has already posted somewhere: The Matrix seemed an apt DVD to test it with. Same vintage.
That's me that was...showed how dated - Spotify was still working on PowerPC...

 
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fooyork

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That's me that was...showed how dated - Spotify was still working on PowerPC...

Great thread!

Now all I wish for is a battery that holds a charge… I won’t hold my breath.

Also, look at the little G3 processor… so cute…

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eyoungren

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Today I moved the D-Link USB hub sitting next to my router out to the garage and plugged it into my 17" PowerBook. While this Mac has a 120GB mSATA, that's not a lot of room.

Quite some time ago I bought a Dunkin' Donuts mug off eBay. The seller had been using the mug as a pencil holder (I use it for coffee!). They'd gotten it as some sort of promo. Part of that included a 512MB 512GB Dunkin' Donuts branded USB stick. That thing has just been sitting around because, well, who has a use for a 512MB 512GB USB stick?

I do…now. :D

I plugged it into the hub and now my 17" Powerbook has essentially 128GB + 512MB 640GB of storage. LOL!

Oh yea, this was after partitioning and formatting it. It was MBR previously. I want to be able to move the stick around at need so I partitioned it as GUID.
 
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